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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Selectric II who wrote (239154)	3/17/2002 8:25:34 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

You do have a point there.

To: Selectric II who wrote (239154)	3/17/2002 8:27:36 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Respond to of 769670

FWIW I am not for legalizing drugs.

To: Selectric II who wrote (239154)	3/17/2002 9:59:01 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

It's not ironic at all, it's very predictable. Cite an issue, cite the argument of one side or the other, and I'll tell you whether the author of the argument is a vacant liberal mind. I know, I know, William F. Buckley is in favor of legalizing drugs and he's not a vacant liberal mind. He thinks the war on drugs is unwinnable. I don't know his position on guns. Isn't it ironic that many of the same people who want to ban gun ownership are the same people who want to legalize drugs,

To: Selectric II who wrote (239154)	3/18/2002 6:19:40 AM
From: joseph krinsky	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I am not for the banning of guns, I think we have an inherent right as human beings to protect and defend ourselves. I believe that even if a government outlawed guns you would still have that right, and that the government is wrong. I do not believe a government has the right to decide how you defend yourselves. I believe that as a human being you have the right to disobey those laws. Drugs though, IMO should be legal. I believe a person has the right to screw up their lives any way they want to. I also believe that the making of drugs illegal causes most of the crime. People who want to take drugs do, they are aware of the penalties, and don't care. The government actually contributes to ruining peoples lives by incarcerating people for merely using drugs. Now they can't get jobs, because they have records. The amount of people using drugs wouldn't increase by any appreciable amount if they were legal, they are plentiful now, anyone can get them, they can't even keep them out of prisons, and we have a rate of drug usage that has stayed around (I think this is the number) 4 % of the population. We're wasting too much of our resources on fighting something that is a waste of time. Let people do what they want as long as they don't bother other people in any way. If they commit crimes while under the influence of drugs throw them in jail for committing the crime, not because they are using drugs. They hurt the people emotionally that are close to them? Tough, that's a personal problem. If you're married to a drug user, divorce them, The children will suffer? So what, they suffer anyway when their daddy or mommy goes to jail for having the drugs. It's so crazy the way we are doing things now. Besides, try it for 20 years and see what happens. We can always go back to making them illegal. One thing for sure about making them legal would be is that the amount of money that is spent now on buying them wouldn't be spent, because drugs are about the cheapest thing on the planet to make, true cost. Marijuana is basically free, it grows anywhere, and hard drugs aren't much more expensive to make and produce.